US Patent Issued to Apple on Nov. 18 for "Method and system for operating a multi-function portable electronic device using voice-activation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,470, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Method and system for operating a multi-function portable electronic device using voice-activation" was invented by Daniel Freeman (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Derek B. Barrentine (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems in which a portable electronic device can be voice activated are disclosed. The portable electronic device can be a multi-function electronic device. The voice activation can be robust and context sensitive. The voice activation can also be utilized without any preparatory user action with respect to the portable electron...